Having discovered that Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA (MAMZ) a.k.a. "Kos" of DailyKos) has a long history of activism for the Republican Party and, furthermore, he trained and worked with the US CIA between 2001 and 2003, research has revealed and established the following, and therefore justice and history now bring this thirty-one count Indictment.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Everyone Wants to Know, "Is Markos Moulitsas Gay?"

My site meter hit counter tells me that many people are coming to this blog wanting to know if Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga is gay or not. Let me tell you, first of all, that it's much more important to know that he spent two years working and training at the CIA between 2001 and 2003, by his own account. Compared to that, how much difference does it really make whether he is gay or not, unless you're hoping to get with him at the next Netroots Nation?

I'd rather spend the afternoon naked in a sauna surrounded by forty gay men than spend ten minutes surrounded by forty CIA agents. How about you? Which would YOU choose? I'd rather be jailed for soliciting gay sex than picked up by the CIA for "questioning" at a secret site in Turkey. I'd rather spend the afternoon with sixty gay men dressed as cowboys than spend the afternoon surrounded by officers from NYPD. How about you? In other words, I'm much more concerned about Moulitsas' connection to the CIA than whether he likes to be on top or on the bottom (if at all).

Unlike Markos Moulitsas, I'm not desperately afraid of gay people (see below), which is a characterstic, studies show, associated with a secret arousal by, and desire for, gay sex.

Anyhow, the reason people want to know if Markos Moulitsas is gay is that they want to know what level of hypocrisy he was demonstrating when he wrote and published this letterat his college newspaper:

It's truly disturbing how much ado has been made over Bill Clinton's campaign promise to lift the ban on homosexuals from the U.S. military. It's ironic how it has taken a president who has never served in the military to make a promise that affects the military in such a negative manner.

Those who have served in the military, such as myself, understand the demands and pressures of military life are incompatible with allowing integration with homosexuals. I'm neither socially conservative or prejudiced, and neither is liberal columnist Mike Royko, Gen. Colin Powell, and influential liberal Democrats Sam Nunn and Les Aspin, all who've come out against lifting the ban.

Under military circumstances, as much has to be done as possible to focus the unit's mission and keep disciplinary problems to a minimum. Worrying about whether the known homosexual sleeping next to you is watching as you change your underwear may seem trivial as you read this, but to the soldier who's short-tempered after three weeks in the field and four hours of daily sleep, it becomes a matter of great importance to his pride and sensibilities. And in any case, there aren't many people who would change clothes in a group of co-workers if members of the opposite sex were in the same room watching. There is something inherently uncomfortable about it.

Such fears would go a long way in disrupting efficiency and morale in a unit.

I recently read of study that concluded that if you put electrodes on the penises of gay men and straight men and men who viscerally hate gays, the men who viscerally hate gays are also the men whose penises become most engorged when they see movies of men having sex with other men. In other words, the men who think they are most anti-gay are the men who would most like to engage in gay sex, but they hate gays (and themselves) for wanting to get down with another man.

If Markos Moultisas is gay, then he is also the worst sort of Sen. Larry Craig "wide-stance" hypocrite for writing the above letter, condemning other people for being part of a group of which Markos Moulitsas also was a member: gay people. To insist that you can't stand being around gay people when it is YOU who are looking at THEIR underwear would be the worst kind of self-deception and self-hate imagineable.

And if that is who and how Markos Moulitsas is, then why the hell are so many people so eager follow him and ask him to define what it means to be "progressive", "liberal" or "leftist" when the above letter shows him to be rigid, insensitive, absurdly self-conscious, homophobic, and adverse to diversity?

If this letter were the only example of this inside view of Markos Moulitsas' mind, then we could dismiss it as a momentary aberration. But, when we read the absurd article he wrote which he entitled, "The Soldier in Me", and combine that with our knowledge that he spent two years "training" and working with the CIA, (something he has been unwilling to discuss, explain, confirm or deny, since he admitted it in his June 2, 2006 interview at the Commonwealth Club), we can only conclude that this man has to be a CIA asset, infiltrator, or, as he put it, "secret agent".

(Why does Alternet do a biography on Moulitsas, mentioning his military service and his parentage, but not mentioning his well-known Google-searchable connection to the CIA? They must be part of the official farce, right, that tries to make a CIA agent into the leader of (guiless) "progressives". With over a million hits for Kos + CIA at Google, why didn't Alternet include that information (or issue) in their biography? I'll tell you why. Many of us progressives are being played like a cheap guitar.)

I think Congressman Barney Frank is "crashing the gates" of the Democratic Party much more usefully as gay man self-acknowledged, compared to Markos Moulitsas "crashing the gates" of the Democratic Party as a CIA-trained (ex?) agent, (ex?) Republican, (ex?) homophobe, who is connected to right wing groups in El Salvador, who will not state whether he benefits financially or not from his family's destruction of the Jaltepeque Estuary, in greater San Salvador, El Salvador.

If anyone has any information (aside from the above letter) indicating that Moulitsas is (or is not) a homophobic gay hypocrite, then please add it to the comments below.

5 comments:

Hi Francis, I tried some time ago to see if there were any other student articles written by Moulitsas, and it didn't seem like any were available for perusal. I think there must be tons of other stuff showing his true ideology. I believe he is an Arianna Huffington type, one who cares more about themselves than about society. So depending on how the winds are blowing, that's where you'll find such posers. I think this slant also explains why he resides in Berkeley. I think that was a calculated move in creating his fake image of being a progressive. As for him being gay, I totally agree with you that the bigger story is about his ties to the CIA. If he is homosexual, then it is of the latent variety. We know from the pie wars or whatever that was about, that he has a misogynist streak. That is another characteristic of latent homosexuals, a deep-seated hatred of women. As for his writing ability, can anyone link to one thing he's written that's been acclaimed or showed even a hint of talent? I doubt it. When someone this mediocre rises to the top, it represents even more circumstantial evidence that such a social climb has not been organic. I have been a liberal type since 18 even younger. How many people change from liberal to conservative or vice versa like he and Arianna have in their later ages? If anything, folks are said to tend to become more conservative as they age. The thing to me about Kos is this. To this day he clings to the story of seeing innocent people murdered by El Salvadoran communists. Yet, anyone who has even a smidgen of awareness of historical facts knows that the story of El Salvador was about right wing death squads. So now we have an alleged progressive praising the CIA as a liberal institution who continues to cover up the truth about right wing death squads. The more time goes on, the more my opinion is evolving to thinking Markos Moulitsas is some form of intelligence worker. I mean, that interview with the Commonwealth Club was from just a few years ago. In short, diarrhea of the mouth has led to his own downfall.

All of Moulitsas articles posted at the Northern Star seem to be available in the archives now, unless they've scrubbed some that I'm not aware of. The http addresses have all been changed, so that links made prior to September 2007 no longer work. Articles with the old links need to be updated.

Now, he claims that he was an important Latino leader at Northern Illinois University, but there is no evidence of that whatsover in the NIU archives. The only evidence available directly contradicts his claim, in an article he wrote that said that anti-Latino and anti-Black color aroused antagonism did not affect him because "they could never escape who they were."

Need Moulitsas say more? He's only a Latino NOW as a defense to being called anti-Latino, or as a rebuttal to those who point out that 1% of readers of DailyKos are Latino. But, he's a white guy in his own mind, and his skin color and facial characteristics enable him to "pass for white".

Moulitsas is one of the most stereotypically gay-seeming people in public life. If he is straight, I would be surprised. But someone like that, no matter who he is attracted to, probably went into the military in the first place to convince himself he was masculine and strong, because either he looked in the mirror and realized he was an effeminate wimp or he was made fun of by others for being one. Of course he's going to be homophobic, especially if he can't reconcile his own desire to be a big strong warrior with the reality that he is quite frankly, (I can say this because I'm a homo myself) faggy.

"Anonymous", that's the most hilarious and clarifying comment I've seen in quite a while. You really made me laugh with your last sentence.

It makes me feel good that people understand that I'm not attacking MAMZ for perhaps being gay; I'm attacking him (a) for attacking gays and (b) ridiculing gay rights, and (c) ridiculing a Democratic president who was trying to do something courageous for gays, while (d) providing a lot of circumstantial evidence that MAMZ is gay himself, and is a big hypocrite.

The letter itself raises a lot of "inherently uncomfortable" questions about MAMZ's sexuality.

And so he writes a fervently anti-gay letter to his college newspaper in an attempt to ingratiate himself with Republicans and reassert his own flagging sense of heterosexuality, if in fact he ever had any. I think he's a Senator Larry Craig in younger skin, but that opinion is based only on the letter he wrote. I don't claim to have any other evidence of whether he is gay or straight, and I wouldn't care, if only he hadn't written that outrageously homophobic letter, only to claim later that he is a "progressive".

At the same time, let's be real. To really understand a person in America today, in the context of this society, you HAVE to know what their skin color is and whether they are gay or not. Otherwise, you really don't know them and what they think about and what they have to confront.

I know that gay people can identify one another even when heterosexual people have no idea. It's that "gaydar", so thanks for offering readers the benefit of your perception.

It's been a real eye-opener for me to learn that MAMZ considers himself to be a white man, and only trots out the 1/2 Latino background when he's pretending to be an "Up from Poverty" success story.

"Sure, I could always talk against racism, fight ignorance and prejudice wherever I ran into it, yet I would always be looking in from another room and I could always close the door. My life, in my world, in my own detached selfishness. And as I left the ugly reality of racism behind, it struck me that what was such an easy and trivial exercise for me would be impossible for anyone whose skin color or religious persuassion (sic) made them the target of bigotry and discrimination. THEY would never be able to escape who THEY were." (Emphasis added.)

"When they 'crash the gates', will they take our cross?"

"A candidate's religion continues to play a key role in shaping vote choice. Nearly four-in-ten (39%) say they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who is Christian. Moreover, 63% say they would be less inclined to support a presidential candidate who does not believe in God – the most negative trait tested."

New online book says Kos family member is president of the Association of Salvadoran Hotels and president of the Salvadoran National Tourism Board. Moulitsas lied when he said his family is not wealthy or influential.

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If a Link Here Doesn't Work . . .

If a link doesn't work, be patient. Look for an updated link in the articles below, use the search function in the top left, and/or look to this list of all but one of the articles written by Markos C. A. Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) when he was at Northern Illinois University (NIU), writing extreme right-wing letters to the editor. Interestingly, the one known missing article still is not in the archives although it was faxed to me by Northern Star staff and republished here.
That article was the first in a series of five articles about "racism", four of which were assigned tasks and described the "racism" and religious persecution problems on campus based on interviews.

"And as I left the ugly reality of racism behind, it struck me that what was such an easy and trivial exercise for me would be impossible for anyone whose skin color or religious persuassion (sic) made them the target of bigotry and discrimination. They would never be able to escape who they were." (Emphasis added.)

Atty. Francis L. Holland in the Media

"Francis L. Holland, one of the vocal black bloggers, sent e-mails to DNC officials asking that 15 black-operated blogs be added to the State Corps. "There is nothing 'Democratic' about an all-white Democratic National Convention floor blogging corps," he wrote in an e-mail. Holland is also asking for the inclusion of 15 Latino-operated blogs."

"Or, as Obama supporter Francis L. Holland puts it: "So, it shows tremendous courage, foresight and solidarity that Edwards has endorsed Obama after the media declared Hillary's campaign to be as good as dead, right? Oh, well! Better late than never!"

"Of the blogs covering the convention, black blogs will be 7.2% of the blogs present,” says Francis L. Holland of the Afrosphere Action Coalition. According to Holland, many states with a strong black Democratic presence and population are either underrepresented or not represented at all, even though black bloggers from these states did apply. “The state of Tennessee, which often has over 25% blacks among its Democratic primary voters, will not have a single black blogger at the Democratic National Convention, for example. The District of Columbia, which is 60% black, will be left out. Louisiana, which is 32.4% black, will be left out. Illinois, the presidential nominee’s home state, which is 15% black, will be left out.”

In 2008, the Democratic "party came under fire from African American bloggers. Francis L. Holland of the Afrosphere Action Coalition, complained to Black Enterprise magazine that black blogs only made up slightly more than 7% of the bloggers credentialed for the convention."

"We are tired of Hillary Clinton telling America that we are less than American simply because we refuse to vote for her," said Francis L. Holland, an African American blogger." Ironically, the Clintons embraced us, and even embraced Pastor Jeremiah Wright for support during their impeachment scandal." Holland was speaking of the congressional trial that followed former president Bill Clinton's liaison with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. "She has forfeited the black vote for the foreseeable future with her color aroused appeals."

“November’s voter turnout depends on August’s blogger outreach,” said Mr. Holland of the Afrosphere Action Coalition., a member of a national and international black bloggers’ coalition called “The AfroSpear.” “Blogs address constituencies, and it simply is not possible for blogs that are all-white to effectively reach diverse Democratic constituencies.”

"Of the blogs covering the convention, black blogs will be 7.2% of the blogs present," says Francis L. Holland of the Afrosphere Action Coalition. According to Holland, many states with a strong black Democratic presence and population are either underrepresented or not represented at all, even though black bloggers from these states did apply. “The state of Tennessee, which often has over 25% blacks among its Democratic primary voters, will not have a single black blogger at the Democratic National Convention, for example. The District of Columbia, which is 60% black, will be left out. Louisiana, which is 32.4% black, will be left out. Illinois, the presidential nominee's home state, which is 15% black, will be left out."

"Francis Holland is a blogger from Afrospear, a national group of bloggers that advocates for African-Americans. When he looked at the list of State Bloggers, he saw no black blogs among them. Holland explains that the process the Democratic Convention planners used to choose the State Blogger Corps was bound to lead to this result. And he argues that the Democratic Party can scarcely afford to alienate black voters in this election year." (The original link no longer works, which is becoming a growing documentation problem on the Internet.)

"Electing Edwards to challenge the status quo is like supporting a queen to challenge the monarchy or integrating an all-white club by adding more all-white club members. It is possible that electing yet another white man to the Presidency will end the poverty of the historically disenfranchised, with John Edwards serving as a "pass through" for those who have historically been disincluded legally and by custom. But this is a very convoluted way of achieving what could be achieved much more directly by electing Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. ..."

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Although I am a trained attorney, I am retired and am not an active member of any state Bar. Therefore, I advocate in all matters on my own behalf and not as the legal representative of any person, group or organization.